Welcome back to Monday Stat Party, a weekly series showcasing some of the most curious and nostalgia-inducing statistical developments from the past week of Mets baseball. What unites each entry is the sense of intrigue which they aim to spark, and the unbridled love of the game’s anomalies from which they arise. Without further ado, let the stat party begin
.TUESDAY
Kodai Senga completed a five-game span in which he allowed 27 earned runs. He’s just the ninth pitcher in Mets history to allow 27+
runs in a five-game span, joining: Jack Fisher, Bobby Jones, Al Leiter, Pedro Astacio, Bobby Parnell, Johan Santana, Jason Vargas, and David Peterson.
WEDNESDAY (GAME ONE)
Nolan McLean generated a career-high 19 whiffs across his six innings of work. That’s the most whiffs for a Mets right-hander since Kodai Senga racked up 22 in Colorado on June 6, 2025. McLean’s 12 whiffs via fastball were the most for a Mets right-hander since Tylor Megill’s 12 on April 9, 2025 against the Marlins.
WEDNESDAY (GAME TWO)
The Mets allowed nine runs in three consecutive games for just the second time since 2007 (when they had two such streaks in September).
The Mets lost despite hitting four home runs for the seventh time since 2023. No other team in MLB has that many such losses in that span.
The Mets committed six errors, tied for second-most in a game in Mets history. It’s the most errors committed by the Mets since September 1, 2014 in Miami, and the most errors committed by any MLB team since — in a karmic twist — the Cubs, on April 1, 2019 in Atlanta. Since 2000, the Mets have now committed six errors in a game on five separate occasions; no other team has done so more than twice.
Francisco Alvarez became the first Met to homer in both games of a doubleheader since Francisco Lindor hit three on September 27, 2023 against the Marlins at Citi Field.
Alvarez has hit eight home runs this season. Four of those eight have been home runs hit within two batters of another Mets player’s homer, including both which he hit in Wednesday’s doubleheader (one batter after Young’s homer in Game 1, two batters before Ewing’s homer in Game 2).
The Mets allowed ten runs in both games of a doubleheader for the sixth time in franchise history, and the first since July 23, 1996 at Coors Field.
Nico Hoerner became the fourth Cubs player to record three doubles against the Mets in the same game, joining: Billy Williams (June 5, 1968), Scot Thompson (October 1, 1978), and Mark Grace (June 9, 1993). The Phillies are the only other franchise to have four players accomplish that feat against the Mets.
The Mets allowed 50 runs in a five-game span for just the third time in franchise history. The first time was May 25-30, 1962, amid the team’s 17-game losing streak. The second time was September 9-15, 2017, when the Mets technically did it twice across six games.
THURSDAY
The 2026 Cubs became the first team to sweep the Mets in a four-game set at Citi Field since…the 2018 Cubs. Since 2015, the Mets have now been swept by the Cubs in nine of twenty-two series against them.
FRIDAY
The Mets’ 10-game winning streak against the Phillies at Citi Field (incl. postseason), dating back to September 21, 2024, came to an end.
By notching his fifth strikeout on Friday night, Zack Wheeler tied Noah Syndergaard for third place on the ballpark’s all-time leaderboard with 420 strikeouts at Citi Field. Jon Niese is in second place with 430, while Jacob deGrom is in first place with 901.
A.J. Ewing became just the second baserunner to record two caught stealings in a game at Citi Field, joining Jonathan Villar (May 25, 2021) on that short list.
SATURDAY
Bryce Harper hit his 15th career home run at Citi Field, breaking a tie with Chase Utley and Anthony Rendon for second place on the ballpark’s all-time leaderboard as a visiting player. Now the only player above Harper on that list is Giancarlo Stanton, who has a whopping 24 home runs against the Mets at Citi Field.
Christian Scott generated 17 whiffs, his most since racking up 18 in his MLB debut on May 4, 2024 in Tampa.
With a clean eighth inning, Luke Weaver recorded his 21st consecutive scoreless outing, tied for the sixth-longest streak by a pitcher in franchise history.
Juan Soto, Bo Bichette, and Francisco Lindor all drove in at least one run for the first time this season. The bottom of the sixth also marked the second inning this season in which each member of the trio got a hit, with the first coming in the top of the first in San Francisco on April 3.
Soto and Lindor each hit a triple, marking the first time two different Mets hit a triple in the same game since Mark Vientos and Jeff McNeil did it in Kansas City on July 13, 2025.
SUNDAY
Juan Soto reached base four times for the 100th time in his career.
Soto became just the fifth player to reach that milestone before turning 28, joining: Mickey Mantle (121), Jimmie Foxx (112), Ted Williams (102), and Mike Trout (100).
Since Soto’s rookie season in 2018, his 100 games with four times on base lead baseball, with Aaron Judge (84) and Freddie Freeman (83) being the only other players with more than 75 such games.
Carson Benge and A.J. Ewing became the first pair of Mets outfielders age 23 or younger to hit multiple RBIs in the same game since Lenny Dykstra and Darryl Strawberry on July 20, 1985 against the Braves at Shea Stadium.
Ewing delivered the first pinch-hit homer by a Mets rookie since Travis Blankenhorn’s first big league home run on July 18, 2021 in Pittsburgh. (source: SNY broadcast)
Kyle Schwarber hit his 25th career home run against the Mets in just his 90th game against them. Schwarber is one of 40 players with 25+ homers against the Mets, and one of only two from that group currently with fewer than 100 games played against them (along with Lee May).
Schwarber recorded three batted balls with an exit velocity of 106 mph or higher in a single game for the third time in his career against the Mets. Schwarber is the only player with three such games against the Mets in the Statcast era (since 2015), with Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge being the only other players to have two.
Miscellaneous Mets stat of the week:
Only two players have hit three home runs in a game against the Mets, yet been on the losing end of the contest. Both players were Cubs:
Dave Kingman, in a 6-4 Mets win at Shea Stadium on July 28, 1979
Karl Rhodes, in a 12-8 Mets win at Wrigley Field on April 4, 1994 (This game was Opening Day, making Rhodes the first player in Major League history to homer in his first three at-bats of a season, according to the broadcast)
